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John Doyle

January 17, 2015 at 11:29

Well the article is fine as far as it goes, but it avoids asking what 2030 and beyond will look like.
The chances of economies throughout the world carrying on as usual, is I think, fanciful;
The IMF forecasts growth at say 3.7% so that says the world economy will be twice as big as it is now in 19 years time. Twice as big as the entire world output since the stone age.
Population is expanding every year by a larger number than the entire UK population. Every year.
Doesn't anyone in politics connect the dots, such as environmental degradation, ocean life depletion, wilder warmer weather, Minerals depletion, energy getting expensive and depleted etc.
Civilizations have all failed and ours is no exception. It's quite probable that as we are now in deflation [note demand destruction of oil supplies] we will never again get out of it. Our highly strung technological society is perforce brittle. It won't take much to set us onto a slippery slope to collapse [ and which is mathematically ordained by our finite world]

John Tuirnbull

January 18, 2015 at 23:23

Just look at the dynamic way this administration is sorting out High Speed Rail, Heathrow and Nuclear Power. No other nation on Earth can match this.

David

June 12, 2015 at 07:37

Richest based on average income? Do you all notice the flaw?... Lets do a scenario. There are 100 people in New York (lets just say there was).. 1 earns 1,500,000 a year... 80 earn 90,000 a year. 19 earn 50,000 a year. The average would then be somewhere around 140,000 a year. It wouldn't make it true. Wealth should be based on debt and national bank standings, economically. But truly it should be based on true average wealth. % of population with healthy living standards... This is truly moronic.
http://www.billionairesnewswire.com/richest-countries-world/

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